The word "dullard" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe someone who is not very intelligent or who lacks imagination or understanding. Example sentence: The professor's boring monologue was so dull that even the brightest student in the class felt like a dullard.
Cotton's colleague Henderson, a dullard and paper stamper, is no help at all.
Employers consistently value the ability to think above skills that can be learned on the job, and universities that accept students with vocational qualifications do so only after admissions tutors have reassured themselves that the young person in front of them is no dullard.
If you did not compete, you were a dullard.
1. Day One Social Network Show-Off As the festivities begin, spy the dullard too busy Tweeting retro-style photos of Enter Shikari or pounding 140 characters into their iPhone about what an awesome time this is to actually have any fun.
All of which, I suspect, on the Amisian scale of values, makes me just as much of a dullard and hapless second-rater as poor Mr Corbyn.
His amoral raconteur is the perfect foil for Kinnear's chillingly selfish dullard.
Yet, as that hulking dullard Stannis Baratheon, part warrior, part geology lecturer, fights his way into King's Landing, I must continue my war on non-Throners.
Edo is a pretty boy, but a lightweight beside his chunky father, who in turn is a dullard compared to the old man.
The Dauphin, however, is a tidy dullard whose only pleasure is the study of locks and keys; again, the symbolism is hardly tucked away in a drawer.
To judge by this production, King's moral seriousness made him a dullard.
If the rotary is a delight when it's revving madly at 5,500 r.p.m., where it makes peak torque, sending the car squirting from stoplights and rocketing out of turns, it can be a dullard when it loafs.
